Wall construction.



PATBNTED FEB. 14-, 1905.

J. A.FERGUSON. WALL CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20,1904.

Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. FERGUSON, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

WALL CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,441, datedFebruary14, 1905. Application filed August 20, 1904. Serial No. 221,559.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J OI-IN A. FERGUSON, acitizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Denver, inthe county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Wall Construction, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to certain new'and useful improvements in wallconstruction, pertaining more particularly to that style of wall inwhich veneer plates or blocks are employed, the said blocks or plateshaving arms which are bonded in the wall.

The present invention has for its objects, among others, to provide forthe better securing of the veneer blocks or plates in and to the wall,the veneer being in the form of slabs, or the veneer may be in the formof blocks with arms and the wall a plain wallthat is, the conditions maybe reversed, if found most desirable, without departing from the spiritof the invention. In either case the veneers are secured to the wall bymetallic ties having angular end or ends. The blocks and veneers arelaid to break joints and continuous air-spaces are formed throughout thewall.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear,and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by theappended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which, with the numerals of reference marked thereon, form a part ofthis specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of aportion of a wall constructed in accordance with my present invention.Fig. 2 is a similar view with the conditions reversed, a different formof armed block being employed. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing stillanother form of block.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews.

Referring now to the details of the drawings, 1 designates a portion ofa wall which, asseen in Fig. 1, is composed of blocks 2, each having twoarms 3 equally spaced apart and at substantially the same distance fromthe ends as is the-distance between the said arms. These blocks are laidin the walLin courses,

one upon the other, and the blocks in the adjacent courses are laid soas to break joints, the arms'or projections being headless and allextending in the same direction, the ends of the said projections orarms being secured to the veneer or facing slabs 4: by means of themetallic members 5, which in this instance are shown as provided withthe angular ends 6, which are secured the one in an arm 3 and the otherin the veneer plate or block, as is seen clearly in all of the figuresof the drawings. Where the ends of the arms abut against the jointbetween two adjacent veneer slabs or blocks, I'employ two of thesemetallic ties, each engaged in the said arm and each having one endsecured in the adjacent end of the veneer slab. As will be readilyunderstood upon reference to Fig. 1, the blocks of the wall, as well asthe veneer slabs, break joints. This brings the armed blocks so thattheir arms are bonded in the wall'that is, the arms are so disposed thatthe blocks are bonded to the wall and toeach other.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a similar construction; but the wall is composedof a different form of blocks 9, each having three headless projections8, one at each end and one in the center. These are laid in the samemanner, and the veneer blocks 7 are secured to the said blocks by themetallic ties 10, having the angular end portions 11, as shown. In thisconstruction there are two of the ties adjacent each other at every arm,in the one instance the two ties being held to the one arm andalternately therewith the two ties held in adjacent arms.

In Fig. 3 is shown a similar construction,

except that the blocks each have four arms preferably spaced equallyapart, the parts being disposed substantially as in the other forms, andthe metallic ties 13 secured to the blocks 15 and the veneer plates 14,there being two of the ties where the blocks and veneer plates breakjoints.

From the above it will be evident that I have devised a firm and securemanner of holding the veneer blocks to the wall, and it is to beunderstood that the wall may be of any suitable form of constructionupon which it may be desired to aflix a facing of any suitablecharacter, and I wish it to be distinctly understood that, if occasionmay require, the facing may be in the form of the blocks with the arms,the wall to which the said veneer plates are affixed being aplain solidwall, such as would be provided were the above conditions reversed-thatis, the wall proper being What has hereinbefore been described as theveneer and the before-described veneer the Wall proper.

What is claimed as new is In a wall, the combination of courses ofblocks having projections extending from the side thereof, and saidblocks laid in the wall to break joints with the projections allextending in the same direction, veneer facing abutting against the endsof said projections and laid in courses to break joints, and metallicties having angular ends for securing the blocks and facing together,said ties being arranged with their ends disposed horizontally, and inpairs at points where the projections lie adjacent to each other.'

Signed by me at Denver, Colorado, this 17th day of August, 1904.

JOHN A. FERGUSON.

Witnesses:

ORA M. LASSWELL, EMMA L. KEMP.

